Ring & coin bearer pillows

A big thanks to my brother and sis-in-law, who got me the sewing machine that I wanted for Xmas!! I've been dying to take it out of the box and start sewing but I had a couple of other things I needed to work on. For motivation, I told myself that I couldn't break out the sewing machine until I finished all my other tasks. So, I finally got to take it out of the box 2 1/2 weeks ago and I was excited to start my first project: the ring and coin bearer pillows.
I thought it'd be fun to make the pillows AND it'll turn out exactly the way we want it to look... if I sew them correctly.

I stopped by Joann Fabrics to pick up two pillow forms, off-white satin fabric and thread. The pillows were too big so I took out all the filling and set it aside.I cut the fabric of one of the pillows down to the size that we wanted. Then, I turned the fabric inside out, left a one-inch margin on all sides and only sewed three of the four sides. I turned the fabric right side out, stuffed it back with the filling that I took out earlier and sewed the fourth side shut. I now had a smaller pillow form.

The next step was to cover the pillow form with the satin fabric. I cut the satin fabric (with one-inch margins), turned it inside out, and sewed three of the four sides. I turned the fabric right side out and inserted the pillow form. I think the hardest part was hand sewing the fourth side shut.Thank goodness, it didn't look so bad after I finished sewing the fourth side.I repeated all the steps with the second pillow and finally got two (semi) finished products!The next step was to decorate them. I used the ribbon that we bought from Paper Source (the same ribbon we're using for the invitations), and also used pearl-headed pins as embellishments.Finally... the finished ring and coin bearer pillows!